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From: mike@maths.tcd.ie (MIKE ROGERS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax on a 3000: need MacROM 2.0
Message-ID: <1991May14.220658.578@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 14 May 91 22:06:58 GMT
References: <1991May10.063117.31222@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May11.145842.358@news.iastate.edu> <1991May11.190942.28695@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991May11.190942.28695@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) wrote:
>to start. Presumably you'll only go through that once, and once
>you're in AMax mode you won't switch back until you're done. I
>don't find 1 minute that annoying, but then again I don't use
>AMax regularly.
>	The legalities are minimally in a grey-area of the law.
>I'm certainly not qualified to debate them. I do assume you've
>BOUGHT the ROMs before getting the on-disk version yourself.

	I don't see the problem and I see the nonsensicality of Apple's shrink
wrap license. I mean, if you want to get entirely pedantic about it, there
only exists one copy of the Sys7, and that's deepagented in Cupertino somewhere.
All other Sys7s are maps of it, injective copies, right? Same with the ROMs.
	So every time you run MacOS, you make another map, converting the
magnetic encoding on the disk into electronic RAM and registers, and copying
the ROMs into RAM. Etc. I've explained this badly, but I mean, all we ever use
is maps of maps of maps. Hell, I've had statistical thermodynamics classes where
they analogized free ideal gases as finite state machines. 
	Issues are never as clear cut as Apple would like them - copyrighting
centre justified underline icon text springs to mind.
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